William Shakespeare Quotes

If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge.

William Shakespeare

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• The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Live
  • Best
  • Yourself

• Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Man
  • Hate
  • Evil

• Chavez, who came out of the ranks of the Venezuelan Army, is methodical and tireless. I have observed him over the course of 17 years, since his first visit to Cuba. He is an extremely humanitarian and law-abiding person; he has never taken revenge on anybody.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Law
  • Taken
  • Army

• Revenge is a way of life and definitely some thing that we identify with. We all feel cheated in some way about some thing and how nice it would be to do something about it. I mean ultimately it's not the most Christian of sentiments.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Life
  • Nice
  • Christian

• It would be flattering to call it a modern Dirty Harry, but I think this film deals more with the loss of his wife than the traditional revenge vigilante films.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Wife
  • Dirty
  • Loss

• And at the time the Republican Congress and a Senate candidate by the name of Mitt Romney - crowd boos No, no, no - Don't boo, vote. Vote! Voting's the best revenge.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Revenge

• All his life he had lived by the law. Often his job had been to stop acts of revenge....And now revenge was all that life had left for him.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Life
  • Job
  • Law

• What does labor want? We want more school houses and less jails. More books and less guns. More learning and less vice. More leisure and less greed. More justice and less revenge. We want more … opportunities to cultivate our better natures.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • School
  • Learning
  • Justice

• The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick or a self-destroying or even murderous obsession. Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• I ain't a killer, but don't push me Revenge is like the sweetest joy next to gettin' pussy.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Joy
  • Revenge
  • Killer

• In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Enemy
  • Revenge

• This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Green
  • Revenge

• I am not a man who wants revenge.

  

  Claudio Ranieri
  • Revenge

• Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

  

  Marquis de Sade
  • Life
  • Ambition
  • Revenge

• For me the greatest revenge of all is having a happy adulthood, waking up in my gorgeous turquoise bedroom in the morning beside a person who really inspires me. That's the best revenge a girl-loving girl from the Bible belt could possibly have. And, importantly, it's healthy.

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Girl

• I'm pretty Sicilian if I've been crossed. I don't seek revenge, but I never forget. And I make it hard to repair, which is not a great quality because if people held me to that standard, no one would be around me - ever.

  

  Amy Adams
  • People
  • Great
  • Pretty

• Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.

  

  Meir Kahane
  • War
  • Hate
  • Peace

• My own theory about the phlegmatic qualities and properties of the English is the mountain of pure white sugar hydrocarbons they consume every day bloody day of the year - the stiff upper lip is petrified sugar; that's Bermuda's revenge, the with death, the rotting future square in the teeth of it.

  

  Katherine Dunn
  • Future
  • Death
  • English

• I think I could probably make $5 to $10m movies for a very long time and live a perfectly good life doing it. I'd probably get paid as well as a surgeon, which is pretty damn remarkable for a guy who went to film school.

  

  Jeff Nichols
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• Ivo van Hove is directing The Crucible, and rehearses in quite an unusual way. We started rehearsals last week and dived straight into the first act, like, five minutes after we all turned up. No warm-ups. We were very intensely immersed in that whole world on day one. It was quite surreal because I've never done any theater before.

  

  Saoirse Ronan
  • World
  • Done
  • Week

• For those women sin against God when they rub their skin with ointments, stain their cheeks with rouge, and make their eyes prominent with antimony. To them, I suppose, the artistic skill of God is displeasing!

  

  Tertullian
  • God
  • Sin
  • Suppose

• The multiple reinforcing cues of a good song-rhythm, melody, contour-cause music to stick in our heads. That is the reason why many ancient myths, epics, and even the Old Testament were set to music in preparation for being passed down by oral tradition across generations.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • Good
  • Music
  • Why

• If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge.

  

  William Shakespeare
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